First Match of the EICL is scheduled for November 7th vs Prairie Chess Club in Cedar Rapids!

Yes it is here, the Eastern Iowa Chess League.

I am looking for parental volunteers to arrange carpools to transport our club up to Cedar Rapids after school on Thursday the 7th of November.  I think this is a great opportunity to play chess against another school, last year we had some tournaments in the library of Borlaug but I think having a focus on playing another school is a keen idea.

Today we had 6 rated games!  I am so glad the kids are using the clocks and playing a rated game.  I will be submitting the games to US Chess after the last chess club of the month, as there is a 3 dollar minimum charge and since it is 25 cents to rate a game, and so far there have been 11 games to rate over three weeks.  But with using the clocks and getting familiar with them, it will help if and when the kids do get to a chess tournament, they wont get freaked out having to use one, it will be more natural. 

on the chess ladder Barry Vigil defended his #2 spot, as Nathan was not present, Eric Liu not only did the Borlaug announcements this morning but defended his #3 spot from the hard as the Siberian Frost Vladimir Tivanski. 

Lots of good chess happening.

 1 +24  5  0 Nathan Wei                         
  2  -1  6  0 Barry  Vigil                       
  3 +19  9  0 Eric  Liu                          
  4  +1  4  0 Aaron  Smith                       
  5 +40  4  0 Vladimir Tivanski                  
  6 +30  5  0 Jim Su                             
  7 +14  4  0 Yulong Shao                        
  8  -1  1  0 Eric  Pieper                       
  9 +18  8  0 Akhil Bharanidhar                  
 10 +32  5  0 Liam Willett                       
 11 +21  4  0 Andrey Arshava                     
 12  -9  5  0 Jacob Vigil                        
 13 +24  7  0 Joe Su                             
 14  -6  4  0 Justin Pieper                      
 15  +2  4  0 Benjamin Zhang                     
 16 +25  9  0 Noah Willett                       
 17  +3 12  0 Jack Fasse                         
 18  +1  7  0 Luke Fasse                         
 19 -17 10  0 Joey Vigil                         
 20  -8  3  0 Andy Luo                           
 21 -17  3  0 Defne Bayman                       
 22  -7  6  0 Jimin Jung                         
 23 +24  2  0 Allison  Skala                       
 24 -11  6  0 Sanjeev Sarin                      
 25 -19  6  0 Eddy  Xu                           
 26  -8  2  0 Reece Yang                         
 27 -18  2  0 Alexandra Curtu                    
 28  +7  3  0 Yifan Bu                           
 29 +10  3  0 Rani Youness                       
 30  -7  1  0 Aditya Malgaonkar                  
 31 -21  3  0 Akshat Pawar                       
 32 -21  0  0 Anna  Zheng                        
 33 -19  1  0 Miranda Feng                       
 34 -18  1  0 Edward Keen                        
 35  -5  7  0 Thomas Pierce                      
 36 +13  7  0 JJ Brown                           
 37 -13  4  0 Ben Ciliberto                      
 38 -12  1  0 Ajay Bharanidhar                   
 39 -11  0  0 Shanza Sami                        
 40  +3  1  0 Serena Li                          
 41 -12  2  0 Alexander  Pierce                  
 42 -11  0  0 Joshua Park                        
 43 -10  1  0 Sebastian  Cochrane                
 44  +2  2  0 Diana Tivanskaya                   
 45 -11  1  0 Sachiko Goto                       
 46  -8  1  0 Joy Su                             
 47  -7  0  0 Dani Youness                       
 48  -4  1  0 Mohana Sunkara                     
 49  -1  1  0 Grace  Song                        
 50   0  0  0 Tadamichi Goto                     
 51   0  0  0 Yuning Shao                        
 52   0  0  0 Ren Hutchinson